State-of-the-Art of Integrated Switching Power Converters

This paper discusses the state-of-the-art of integrated switched-capacitor and inductive power converters. After introducing applications that drive the need for integrated switching power converters, implementation issues to be addressed for integrated switched-capacitor and inductive converters are given, as well as design examples. At the end of the paper, various integrated power converters are compared in terms of the main specifications.

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